On July 29, 2021 at 7:31 AM Roger Price wrote:

On Thu, 29 Jul 2021, mcgarrett wrote:

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After the lightning bolixed up all the computers, I bought a cheap refurb

Were these machines plugged directly into the wall, or did they have a UPS in front of them?

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that had Windows10 Home on it. I decided to make a partition for OpenSUSE Leap 15.3.

Some details? E.g. inxi -LDpj

Roger I may have been too sleepy. It looks like I still have Windows. To answer, the machines were plugged into UPS units, and the internet thru router and modem. The FAX input to

the all-mode printer thru the LAN telephone connection, which fried the FAX connection but spared the rest of the printer. The router was blown, of course, but the modem survived. All 3 land-line phones were damaged--these were AT&T 4939, my favorite phone, no longer available. (Too simple to set up! You need to be a programmer for the new ones--even to use them!) I will try again to install Leap with KDE. Don't know what went wrong. If it still won't work like the Leap I have (now damaged) on my other machine, then bye-bye. --doug

On 29/07/2021 20.01, Bill Walsh wrote:

On 7/29/21 12:55 PM, mcgarrett wrote:

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On July 29, 2021 at 7:31 AM Roger Price wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2021, mcgarrett wrote:

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After the lightning bolixed up all the computers, I bought a cheap refurb Were these machines plugged directly into the wall, or did they have a UPS in front of them?

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that had Windows10 Home on it. I decided to make a partition for OpenSUSE Leap 15.3. Some details?  E.g. inxi -LDpj

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I may have been too sleepy. It looks like I still have Windows. To answer, the machines were plugged into UPS units, and the internet thru router and modem. The FAX input to the all-mode printer thru the LAN telephone connection, which fried the FAX connection but spared the rest of the printer. The router was blown, of course, but the modem survived. All 3 land-line phones were damaged--these were AT&T 4939, my favorite phone, no longer available. (Too simple to set up! You need to be a programmer for the new ones--even to use them!)

Wow. Would the insurance cover some of that damage?

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I will try again to install Leap with KDE. Don't know what went wrong. If it still won't work like the Leap I have (now damaged) on my other machine, then bye-bye.

Well, you are in control of the installation process.

When I've set up dual boot I let Windows resize the drive and create the space needed. My theory is that Windows knows more about what it needs and how to move things around for best effect.

You are right. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))

Le 27/08/2021 à 13:06, George from the tribe a écrit :

Yes, and if you disable paging and disable hibernation in Windows,

yes, and even removing the pagefile.sys and hyberfile.sys files :-) jdd -- http://dodin.org

* DennisG [07-29-21 15:21]:

On 7/29/21 3:56 AM, mcgarrett wrote:

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After the lightning bolixed up all the computers, I bought a cheap refurb that had Windows10 Home on it. I decided to make

a partition for OpenSUSE Leap 15.3.  I used gparted to shrink windows and make a partition for Leap 15.3. I downloaded the

latest version and installed it. It seems to have wiped out Windows and created for itself something that must be related

to hell. Most of the apps that I could download and install on a version from last Fall are gone and unfindable, When I

placed the few that I could find on the desktop, when I rebooted they were gone. So was Windows.The only thing I could do

that remained was to get rid of the ugly stock desktop and replace it with something pleasant. I have used Linux for

almost 20 years, and I really don't understand Windows, on a partially working machine, or want to, but I'm having to use

it until I find a new Linux. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? It's like KDE is GONE!

The folks here on the mailing lists have been more than helpful to me, and I am grateful to them, but now I will have to

find something--probably Mint with a KDE overlay--that I can live with. I will really miss the root version of Dolphin.

Written from a badly damaged Windows computer (that has a usable Leap 15 on it) but still reads and sends mail on an

ugly app from optimum.net. (Claws mail I never got to work.)

--doug

IMO, Mint or Ubuntu or Kubuntu are all definitely a much better fit for you.  Hopefully, you understand why.

or perhaps Puppy Linux, https://puppylinux.com/ -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode